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by avoutthere 13y ago
Also, it's fair for any U.S. citizen to critique the site, since we are paying for it.
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by avoutthere 13y ago
What mess? The mess created by the Commission themselves? Why should he be on the hook for their highly-questionable actions?
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by avoutthere 13y ago
The idea of a National Security Letter, a device which strips the recipient of several basic human rights, is so blatantly unconstitutional that it should have never been allowed to exist at all, let alone persist as long as it has. It&#x2
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by avoutthere 13y ago
This piece mirrors my thoughts on tech interviews as well. Firing brain teasers at somebody under the pressure of a job interview environment gives very little indication of how the candidate will actually perform their day-to-day job duti
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by avoutthere 13y ago
Anybody building such systems today should have a plan for when (not if) they receive a National Security Letter.
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by avoutthere 13y ago
Well, said. This simply can't be allowed to continue, especially in America which holds liberty as its central value.
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by avoutthere 13y ago
Why is this on HN?
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by avoutthere 13y ago
I like to think that I would react as did Todd Beamer and the other passengers of Flight 93. Sometimes circumstances call for heroic action at the risk of one's self.
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by avoutthere 13y ago
I've always thought that companies like Google miss out on many talented, hard-working, passionate developers simply because those developers can't tackle the ridiculous programming questions in interviews. Then these same compan
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by avoutthere 13y ago
I've run across a number of tutorials that persist through a simple PHP-based REST API. What I haven't seen, but would very much like to, is one that includes authentication.
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by avoutthere 14y ago
I wonder if Tesla customer support recorded the calls.
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by avoutthere 14y ago
Similarly conservative, I think, is that it will be the year 2150 before a human lives to 150. Considering the pace of advancement in the fields of genetics, pharmaceuticals, and organ-replacement, I would expect this much sooner.
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by avoutthere 14y ago
As did a man named Sylvan Hart. In the 1930s escaped the Great Depression by settling in north-central Idaho and lived out his days there alone until his death in 1980. He put his engineering education to good use, mining ore and smelting
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by avoutthere 14y ago
Note that he has not yet been found guilty.
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by avoutthere 14y ago
Marxist tripe.
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by avoutthere 15y ago
Nothing is more dangerous to the Valley than threats of force from Washington.
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by avoutthere 15y ago
The critical difference between what Doctorow is saying and people buying Apple products is choice . Now you can choose an open solution without being a criminal.